The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-18
HORSES IN THE PARK.
The Latest HOrrid Bugab0o
of the Tribune"
SOME EXPLANATORY REMARKS
About the "Park Outrage" which
is Causing such Concern.

for closing the gates at the PARK each
evening at dusk, and the Tribune haviDf
contained an item the other morning
insinuating that the Park had tee1
given up 70 the Mayor and some of bi
friends for horse pasture, HEGAL
reporter swooped down On the City
Hall yesterday to seek an explanation
lie found His Honor engaged in u
private Office in conversation with Il
employee of the Park, and as lutl
would have it. they were discussing til
identical subject which had Induced b,
reporters onslaught, so that the Iat,el
had only to open his ears and his not,
book and punctuate their tax with 6
few interrogatories TO CLEAN, for tAt
benefit of interested HERALD readers
the following information:
For the past number of years Liberty
Park has been infested during the
autumn, winter and early spring with
myriads of field mice, which have
proven q veritable pest to the cultiva-
ton and Improvement of the place, and
the superintendent in charge, Mr.. &
Schulthess, a very intelligent German
Of extended experience as a gardener
and superintendent of parks in the old
country, has been put to his wits END
to provide plan to get rid of the
troublesome little depredatoIs, which
in the past two or three years nave
destroyed upwards of 500 trees OF
various sizes, some of them quite rare
and OF valuable variety. Particularly
was he perp!exed in view of the
fact that although vastly more atten
ton had been given to the eXtirpation
of the verInin at the Park than else
where, yet the owners of land adjacent
to the PARK, with little or no effort. had
been able to rid their fields of the NUS
ance, while inside the Park the mice
still swarmed and frollcked and laughed
at all efforts for their determination.
L ugh on Rats, blue yitriol, strych-
nine and other poisons of deadly ma
ture have been spIinkled aoout the
roots of trees and IL the burrows. with
some successful results, but ii seemed
that for each mouse killed, like flies at q
soda fountain, a huuCre6 mourners
cams trooping to the funeral, each with
bit OF the bark off some choice tree in
his mouth as an emblem of respect for
the departed one and OF defiance to the
doughty gardener and his men. And
so, from season to season, the pesky lit
tie critters have fiourisned like a green
bay tree till finally the superintendent
made discovery. 1t WAS simply this ::
He had noticed after harvest each wear
that stock we're pastured in the sdioin-
ing fields, while there were none, of
course, in the Park. The effect was
that all the mice in the surrounding
country were driven by the stock into
the Park and made winter rendezvous
of the lucern patches there, the snow
and the lucern forming as coy "a shelter
from the cold as if it were constructed
for the express purpose. "Conse-
quently," argued the Superintendent,
1.-The remedy will be to put some stock
in the Park" He con6ded his views to
the Mayor, who objected at first on the
ground that the stock might destroy as
much property as the mice, but recelv-
ing the assurance of the Superintendent
that horses could be easily and mex
pensiVely controlled and that the little
damage they might do could be
readily repaired, and considering
the Incompatible benefit that would
result in case the experiment
and two or three bands of horses, known
to be gentle, were placed in the Park.
'As to the TTibane'S comments" said
the Mayor, with smile, when the re-
porter recounted some of them, "you
know that those fellows would always
rather distort and misrepresent a fact
than cone around here and get the
square truth. You can't blame III IN;
it's their regular business But want
you to say that Liberty Park Is as much
a breathing place for the people rs
ever it was, and that it will continue to
be, and driving is Just as safe there
now as before the horses were put there.
1 did not want to keep a man herdins
at the gate all night, so ordered the
gates closed about DARK, thinking all
good citizens would be at home about
that hour, but If there are some night
hawks who want to 60 poking around
the Park IN the dark, why perhaps the
gates may be kept open a little
longer. 1t was from no choice
of mine that my horses or
any of the others were placed there,
as they were all taken from good
pastures at our own expense and put in
the Park as an accommodation, and, as
already stated, to free the Park of a
pest which gave every indication of
destroying hundreds of dollars worth
Of property"
And how about the poor people
Who go there to rest under the trees anu
ct their babies roll on the grass ?"
lueried the reporter, quoting from the
Tribune.
We'll, " replied His Honor, IF they
ct their babies roll on the grass much
1t this season l think pneumonia will
get in its work ahead o the horses. No;
We purposely waited until all picnick. |
ng was over with -
And how long will the horses re-
nain?"
"Oh 1 don t know. We shall see how
he plan works. | suppose until the
srass is eaten down and the ground is |
pretty well Jrsmped.f
and so that is all there is in the |
'ribune'S great Park outrage, is it?''
Even So"
Twas ever thus from morn ii nigh.
The TribuRe's fOndest hopes fat out
1t never ties its bag so tight
But some one lels the old cat out.
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